Most of the images on these page are very old, when I was first trying to figure out this thing. Most of them involve a quasi-realistic penguin along with a creature which looks somewhat like an eagle's head (that's what it was based on anyway). These pictures are very strange.
All images copyright © 2000, Sean O'Malley
Prototype Penguin A prototype for a new penguin. Hopefully it will eventually get better than this.
I'll call it Penguin 2000. (He appears to be experiencing some technical difficulties in the eyeball area right now...)
Undersea Penguin An image with the new penguin. Can't say I like this penguin more, but at least it's more realistic - which isn't saying much.
(Actually, in this image it looks surprisingly like the old penguin.) This one isn't made up of a bunch of elongated spheres, cones, and
cubes like the other; the main body was molded in one piece from a mesh. I like the lighting effect in this one.
Eagle & Penguin This shows the two...things...together. This is the old penguin model, which I lost a long time ago.
Eagle Drawing Here's a picture of the eagle drawing a picture of the above. Don't ask me how he gets such realistic color out of a pencil.
Blowing Bubbles POV-Ray has a feature where you can add an oil-slick-looking surface to an object, so obviously I had to make a scene with
bubbles in it. This also shows a feature called Caustics where it will simulate the light-focusing effect of a glass (or in this case, bubble) object.
POV-Ray can't really simulate the light focusing, splitting and reflecting of prisms, mirrors and lenses, but it gets pretty close. (The glass 3 Cylinders picture
on Page One also has caustics turned on, and caustics is what makes the rippling light effect in Undersea Penguin above.)
Drawer Moray comes with a model of a chest of drawers which I used in this scene.
Escher My own rendition of M.C. Escher's famous drawing, this time with a penguin. It's looking into a large metallic sphere, drawing a picture
of itself. I had to render this image once to get the picture, which I then stuck on the paper in front of the penguin and rendered again. (If you look
closely, you can see that the drawing of the drawing doesn't have a drawing on it...Whatever.)
Flashlights I put some fog into this scene along with a bunch of different objects to see what would happen to the beams of light from the
flashlights. Kind of interesting.
Giant S This just has a gigantic reflective S in it with some creatures. Now I wonder what the S is for?
Lonely Penguin Another experiment with fog. Now this is very artistic! Love those surrealistic streetlamps. I think I may have made
the fog a bit too thick, though.
The Band Okay, it's not technically a band - more like a duet. Or more accurately, a couple of penguins who are obviously physically unable
to use the instruments they're placed with. I'd say the penguin at the piano has a better chance of playing that than the penguin with the Irish whistle,
though.
Picnic Another experiment with different kinds of materials.
Penguin on Stage And yet even more experimentation with fog. Looks like an operatic penguin or something. The light was tinted slightly yellow.
